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Anonymous
Posted December 31, 2005
Adam Smith's utopia
Purdy reflects on the role American money and values play in the world today. He does this by interviewing people in many countries to illustrate the bright and dark sides of globalizaton. To me it is reminiscent of Fukuyama and Friedmann in that he is pleading for a tolerant, liberal world. His statement, 'Europeans' ethnocentrism ... is not compatible with living in a time of great migrations', reveals his hope for an Adam Smith type of world where cultures are free to compete, and individuals are free to choose their culture, preferably American.
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Anonymous
Posted November 19, 2003
Being America
This is an important author and book; while extraordinarily engaging and offering a dichotomous philosophy of what 'being American' means [not so unlike our country], and notwithstanding some evidence of a naive perspective attributable, no doubt, to the author's young age, it compels the reader to do something refreshingly novel-to think and reflect!!
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Anonymous
Posted September 1, 2003
an educated read
Purdy has given us a well researched, well written piece - but his style is still lacking the true refinements of a great author. I look forward to reading his next work. Of interest in this book were the sections in which Purdy was in a foreign country gaining an outside prospective.
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